View of the Old State Museum (1913), officially known as the Colorado State Museum, 200 West Fourteenth (14th) Avenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Frank E. Edbrooke designed this former museum to harmonize with the state...

View of the Old State Museum (1913), formerly officially known as the Colorado State Museum, 200 West Fourteenth (14th) Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Frank E. Edbrooke designed this former museum to harmonize with the...

View of the Byers-Evans House Museum at 1310 Bannock Street in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado (1989; restoration by Long Hoeft Architects). The two-story Italianate-style house was built in 1883 for William Newton Byers, founding...

Two men sit in probably the Quorum Restaurant located at Colfax Avenue and Grant Street in Denver, Colorado. The men, Robert L. Silber, President of the Denver Art Museum's Board of Trustees, and Denver restaurateur and owner of the Quorum, Pierre...

View of the Colorado Heritage Center (the Colorado State Museum, later the Colorado History Museum), 1300 Broadway, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the front (south) facade of the state museum. The building, with its...

View of the Colorado Heritage Center (Colorado State Museum, later the Colorado History Museum), 1300 Broadway, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the front (south) facade of the museum. The building, with its Modern...

View of the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. The frame museum, a replica of the Rio Grande Southern depot at Mancos, has flared eaves, a square tower and gable trim. Signs on the building addition read: "South Alamosa" and...

Detailed view of the exterior of the Leprino Family Atrium (2002) on the west elevation of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (formerly known as the Denver Museum of Nature and Science) in City Park, Denver, Colorado. The atrium, a three-story...

View of the Eagle County Historical Museum at Chamber's Park (formerly Chamber's dairy barn) in Eagle (Eagle County), Colorado. The gambrel-roofed frame dairy barn constructed in 1882 was moved in 1984 from its original location to Chambers Park...

View of the Byers-Evans House Museum at 1310 Bannock Street in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado (1989; restoration by Long Hoeft Architects). The two-story Italianate-style house was built in 1883 for William Newton Byers, founding...

View of the Colorado Heritage Center (the Colorado State Museum, later the Colorado History Museum), 1300 Broadway, and the State Judiciary Building, 2 East Fourteenth (14th) Avenue, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a...

View of a reproduction 10-stamp mill at the Western Museum of Mining & Industry, 225 North Gate Boulevard, Colorado Springs, Colorado. The mill was constructed in 1978 by museum staff using 19th century construction methods. Much of the equipment...

View of the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado. The building has a flared roof, gable trim, a square tower, and a platform with a luggage cart. The museum is a replica of the Rio Grande Southern depot at Mancos, Colorado....

The Carter Museum, in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a one story, hewn log house with white chinking and a shed roofed addition built on the side. A sash window is next to an open door, and stovepipes rise from the roof. A pile of rounded rocks and...

View of the Colorado Heritage Center (the Colorado State Museum, later the Colorado History Museum), 1300 Broadway Street in the Civic Center neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Shows the east elevation of the three-story museum-office building during...

1883 of typhoid fever. Several campus buildings were heavily damaged in the "great earthquake" of April, 1906.; Palm trees stand on the lawn in front of the large, neoclassical Stanford Museum of Art on the campus of Stanford University in Palo...

The Gilpin County Mining & Historical Museum is a two story, brick building with a flat roof, rounded windows, a cornice, and large rectangular doors with arched doorways. A telephone post is next to the sidewalk that runs along the building. Two...

Exterior photograph of the Byers-Evans House located in downtown Denver, Colorado. The Denver Art Museum can be seen in the background. The house was built in 1883 for Rocky Mountain News publisher William Byers. He sold it to the William Gray...

View of the former U.S. Military Museum once located at 404 State Street, Fort Morgan, Colo. The two-story square building with large warehouse attached at the rear was once a local residence. The U.S. Military Museum was decommissioned in the...

View of the Colorado Historical Society and the Colorado History Museum, formerly known as the Colorado Heritage Center, 1300 Broadway, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the front (south) facade of the museum-office...

View of the Pine River Heritage Society Museum located at the corner of Pearl and Mill Streets, Bayfield, La Plata County, Colorado. This one-story, flat roofed, rusticated cast stone structure has the signs "Pine River Valley Heritage Society" on...

cross over the building. People have made tracks walking in the snow in the foreground.; The museum at Mesa Verde National Park sits on a gently sloping hillside covered in snow. Juniper trees line the front of the museum, built by Jesse Nusbaum,...

View of the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum located in the former Lake County High School, 120 West 9th Street, Leadville, Colo. Built in 1900, the two-story brick structure has ornate pedimented dormers with urn finials and corbeled...

View of the facade and south elevation of the Louisville Historical Museum, at 1001 Main Street in Louisville (Boulder County), Colorado. The one-story wooden building has a gable roof, a false front and store front windows covered with striped...

View of the Gunnison Pioneer Museum located at 803 East Tomichi Avenue in Gunnison, Colorado. The museum contains 18 historic structures including a Denver & Rio Grande depot moved from Sargents, Colo., a Denver & Rio Grande water tank from...

View of a B-52 bomber, Hangar Two (Building 402) and the Wings Over the Rockies Museum located in Hangar One (Building 401) at 7731 East Academy Boulevard in the Lowry Field neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two airplane hangars are located on...

View of the Arvada Flour Mill Museum located at 5580 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada, Colo. The 30-foot-tall wooden structure with corrugated metal siding was built to process wheat and then distribute the flour produced as "Arva-Pride." Built in...

View of the Saguache County Museum on the corner of U.S. 285 and San Juan Avenue in Saguache, Colorado. The one story gable-roofed adobe building was built in 1908. A sign in front of the building reads: " Saguache County Museum," "Gift Shop...

View of the Denver & Rio Grande Engine No. 5771 currently on display at the Colorado Railroad Museum, 17155 West 44th Avenue, Golden, Colo. Between 1971-1983, this diesel engine powered the last non-Amtrak intercity passenger train in the United...

Robert W. Richardson and a bus driver pose in front of a Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation Company tour bus and Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive (2-8-0) #346, at the Narrow Gauge Museum in Alamosa (Alamosa County), Colorado....